A Texas-based information technology company said Thursday that it’s building a new global headquarters in Lancaster County, S.C., about 6 miles south of Ballantyne – a move that will bring 1,500 new jobs and a $41 million investment.

Abortions would be banned after 20 weeks under a bill Republican lawmakers passed Thursday, adding to legislation already on its way to Republican Gov. John Kasich that would prohibit abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.

The late Maurice Bessinger once made politics a part of every plate of barbecue he sold at Maurice’s Piggie Park, a classic barbecue restaurant. His son, Lloyd Bessinger who runs the South Carolina restaurant now, wishes that weren’t so: “We want to serve great barbecue and be known for that. Not for politics.” But is it possible to separate the two?

Dylann Roof's mother suffered a heart attack not long after prosecutors described how her son planned a cold and calculated killing of nine black church members in a racially motivated attack, the white man's attorney said in court documents Thursday.

An inmate serving a life sentence who escaped from a maximum-security South Carolina prison and stabbed a police officer while on the run has been recaptured after a locked door stopped him from getting into a school, authorities said Thursday.